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35th Congress, ) HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. ( Mrs. Doc. 
1st Session. ) ( No. 85. 



SPIRIT LAKE TROUBLES— PAY OF THE MILITIA. 



MEMORIAL AND JOINT RESOLUTION 

OF TIIE 

LEGISL ATUKE OF THE STATE OF IOWA, 

FOR 

Paying the militia in Spirit Lake troubles with Indians in March, 1857c 



March 16, 1858. — Ordered to be printed. 



MEMORIAL AND JOINT RESOLUTION" asking Congress to appropriate a sum sufficient 
to the State of Iowa to indemnify the said State for all necessary expenses incurred in 
an expedition raised under authority of the govenor ot the State of Iowa to relieve the 
settlements at Spirit Lake in March, A. D. 1857. 

Your memorialists, the general assembly of the State of Iowa, would 
respectfully represent that, in consequence of the hostile invasion of 
the State by a band of Sioux Indians, in the month of March A. D. 
1857, whereby a large number of the citizens of this State were bru- 
tally murdered and a considerable amount of property destroyed ; and 
wbereas, in order to protect the lives and property of the citizens of 
this State, it became necessary to raise, arm, and equip a company of 
men to march to the relief of the settlements ; and whereas under the 
authority of the governor of this State a company of nearly one hun- 
dred men were so raised, armed, and equipped, and did march to the 
scene of the massacre, thereby incurring considerable expense and suf- 
fering almost unheard of hardships, and thereby relieving a number of 
families from starvation, and burying the bodies of the murdered. 

Your memorialists would, therefore, respectfully ask of your hon- 
orable bodies that a law may be passed providing for the payment to 
the State of Iowa all the expenses incurred by the said State in con- 
sequnce of said hostile invasion as aforesaid 

Resolved, That the senators from this State be instructed, and the 
representatives be requested, to use their best exertions to procure 
the passage of a law appropriating a sum as asked for in the fore- 



2 SPIKIT LAKE TROUBLES. J_ o £T 

going memorial, and that the secretary of state forward a copy thereof 
to each. 

STEPHEN B. SHELLEDY, 

Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
ORAN FAVILLE, 

President of the Senate. 

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Approved January 30, 1858. 

RALPH P. LOWE. 



I certify that the foregoing is a true copy from the original on file 
in my office. 

ELIJAH SELLS, 

Secretary of State, 



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